dafour Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 Thats cool,i have a dead 9800Pro laying somewhere around here (R360 core) Quote
Hyperhorn Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 Great memories, this was the time I joined Hwbot. Now here is my personal story, even if nobody asked for actually. In the second half of 06 I began to visit Hwbot on a regular basis and soon I had the idea of joining Hwbot with a team of members of the PC Games Hardware forum, which was my very first online forum in 2003 (joined 2004). But in 2006 PC Games Hardware still hadn't his own dedicated forum and a major part of the so-called Computec community were gamers and readers of the PC gaming magazines PC Games and PC Action. So I expected to encounter heavy resistance by trying to establish a Hwbot team and convince community members (and the forum admins) why it is a great idea to overclock your system not for daily usage but for better benchmark results. However I decided to choose the easier way and joined Awardfabrik, which was and still is one of my favorite overclocking communities. Awardfabrik was the home of some well-known extreme-overclockers already back then, so I had the chance to learn the basics for competetive overclocking. A few months after I joined the Awardfabrik team during Games Convention PC Games Hardware launched the forum PC Games Hardware Extreme, which was focused on extreme overclocking and was inspired by (XS-)fr3ak (my later workmate), so of course I had to register there immediately (user #36 ). As one of the initial member who was focused on extreme overclocking it was just a matter of time when I became a forum moderator at PC Games Hardware Extreme, especially considering that I already was a moderator at the classic, non-extreme PC Games Hardware forum. So after PC Games Hardware finally had choosen the way I asked for in the past, it was a pretty natural thing to join the Hwbot team of PC Games Hardware even if it was a tough decision to leave my first Hwbot team. In 2008 I started to work at PC Games Hardware and meanwhile I'm one of the administrators of the PC Games Hardware Extreme forum and Hwbot team captain and probably don't support it the most by uploading OC results (unfortunately ), but promoting and taking care of events like team competitions, the PCGH-EOS founded by der8auer and stuff like the costless Hwbot team shirt. PC Games Hardware might not be the most traditional team, but has a great morale and is dedicated to overclocking in all different shapes, which is fantastic and likely the main reason for its success. Quote
tiborrr Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 Great find! I miss those days. I think the overclocking spirit was healthier in those day than it's now. Quote
Massman Posted March 16, 2011 Author Posted March 16, 2011 Then again ... did you know that many Latin-American overclockers back then? :-) Quote
|ron Posted March 16, 2011 Posted March 16, 2011 (edited) "Wow, Finally I'm in homepage with a dedicated news! :D" "Ok Francesco, but it's not related to oc results..." "Shut Up, I'm in first page I said" :D Jokes apart, it was really a good time, I was in the overclocking hobby since 2003 or so, but in 2006 I started to use Dry ice and in 2007 LN2. This screenshot was made because, after weeks of work, I succeded in doing Vmods on an Asrock 4core that came with Conroe support (extremely fast cpus in february 2007), DDR1 and DDR2 slots, PCI-EX and AGP slot. So I put my shining E6600, a Mushkin DDR2 kit and this Full-modded 9800XT by Powercolor and here are the results! The cpu was limited so 2,9ghz because of the mobo that couldn't manage FSB higher that roughly 300mhz; liquid cooling on chipset. It was an honor to be "on top" of Macci and Oppainter, even if they used a Dothan or an AMD FX57 I think... but they had 100+°c of advantage using LN2 instead of Dryce Edited March 16, 2011 by |ron Quote
M.Beier Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 This is a screenshot I saved: but PURE did not excist 4 years ago? Quote
Massman Posted March 17, 2011 Author Posted March 17, 2011 Wasn't 4 years ago. Was somewhere in the era of R5870 and Clarkdale release. Quote
elmor Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 but PURE did not excist 4 years ago? Nick didn't either He never said that screenshot was from that long ago. Quote
e-Killer Posted March 17, 2011 Posted March 17, 2011 Nick didn't either He never said that screenshot was from that long ago. Woot so Nick is 3 years old ? Quote
SoF Posted March 18, 2011 Posted March 18, 2011 long loooong time ago massman was TOP5 hw-junkies and "Mr. Voiceless" was #1 Quote
SoF Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Seeing that - does anybody knows what Tyrou is doing now? haven't seen him since cebit 3 or 4 years ago Quote
M.Beier Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Seeing that - does anybody knows what Tyrou is doing now? haven't seen him since cebit 3 or 4 years ago He is busy flying around the globe.... He became a pilot. I asked this question at CeBIT. Quote
Crew Leeghoofd Posted March 21, 2011 Crew Posted March 21, 2011 Wow Chris was lethal then Marc you were 16 then ? Quote
M.Beier Posted March 21, 2011 Posted March 21, 2011 Wow Chris was lethal then Marc you were 16 then ? I was 18 when I did LN2 first time, I believe, this being 6 years ago. Which also leads me to it was my 5th CeBIT this year =) Quote
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